Or is it that our economy and tax-base has been hollowed out by ex-pats?

seems almost certain we’ll later find out they were coerced thehill.com/homenews/med...

Watch with sound on

Man Alive - The Disc Jockeys (11th February 1970) youtu.be/L6tBzY8EHgk?...

It's extraordinary, how Labour can have an election in Gorton and Denton triggered by an MP medically retiring from his post due to #LongCovid, yet be unable to say the word Covid, let along in conjunction with Long, or lift a finger to cut Covid infections or help those now living with Long Covid.

Just had to go into a Tesco for an emergency bag of marshmallows. Such is diabetes.

Not only a powerful opening, but a valuable source of information.

Man behind satirical Crewkerne Gazette AI videos served sentence for hate crimes

You know who is REALLY draining resources? Tax dodging billionaires who love brown people when they are exploiting them in their factories abroad but hate seeing them in the UK.

So does that mean Man U will not sign foreign players now?

'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Fifty years old today!

He’s not too shy there.

Limahl is trying to break into acting and I am 100% here for it

Some Winter Olympics athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by masking and isolating. Meanwhile, the media stigmatizes disease prevention while minimizing serious risks of Long COVID. Read more from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rHDA6R

Jim Davidson – Maggie Sadly his one great love Mrs Thatcher died without ever once reciprocating Jim's deep carnal lust...

Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:

Original blog post open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/e...

Yep. I’m not surprised though.

"Siri, give me an example of flagrant exploitative pricing in the retail sector." "I have found: The non-Clubcard and Clubcard prices for toothpaste at Tesco Express."

This. Is. Beautiful.

European Super League project officially over after Real Madrid and Uefa deal

Interesting. Particularly after The Lancet published a monster meta-analysis to deny that this side-effect was associated with statins at all. www.sciencealert.com/painful-side...

im so tired of the dumbest ppl in society having the most say in society. it's completely wrecked the place.

Great crack by Ayoub Khan at #PMQs, asking a question about the Birmingham bin strike. "Mr Speaker, rubbish is building up right beneath my very nose" In the chamber, he sits immediately behind the Reform bunch.

Here's a good bit from a Disney film from back when Disney made good films to brighten your timeline.

'Civilised' was the word I was looking for.

Talking of artists...'pass' youtu.be/QRhyc56aVb0?...

One of the reasons why I tend to avoid pubs (outside cities) is that I imagine they are absolutely full of Reform bores.

The rationality and sensible nature that this appears to have are the very things that will probably ensure its lack of adoption fully.

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

Said it before, and I’ll say it again, but for people like me, this would be transformative - it would stabilise our incomes, and allow us to plough more time into creative work and less into stuff anyone could be doing. AND it’s a net economic benefit to the country.

is there somewhere else a global football championship could be held, due to one host nation invading another host nation? Asking for a World Cup

Who misses getting letters from Tom Champagne in the Reader's Digest prize draws department? I was always one stage away from winning big. And a complete set of the works of Charles Dickens (abridged)

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

One of my favorite things is when badly run clubs hire managers from well run clubs and are shocked when it changes nothing for either team

You can't even make a four-year-old work in a factory these days

Tottenham Hotspur have sacked head coach Thomas Frank. More from @david-ornstein.bsky.social

PERSON OF THE DAY. 11 February 1926. Leslie Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He appeared in more than 100 films including the Airplane and the Naked Gun film series, but don’t call him Shirley. 😂

FACT OF THE DAY. 11 February 1945. Yalta Agreement, designed to plan the post-War era, was signed by the “Big 3” Allied leaders, left to right: Churchill (UK), Roosevelt (USA), and Stalin (USSR). They reiterated their demand of “Unconditional Surrender” from Hitler’s Germany.

🇪🇺 Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa & Mastercard Has Begun ECB Pres Lagarde has called for #Europe to break its dependence on 🇺🇸 payment infrastructure, warning that every transaction sends consumer data to the #US. #EU #Europe #Visa #MasterCard europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/eur...

I’m watching C*caine Bear. I’m reminded that @sirdesmondstirling.bsky.social was commissioned to write the UK remake Red Bull Badger

We’re so broken. This is absurd.

Oh the irony of the lying scumbag...

We're at the Monkey Tennis stage.

Yes, just heard it.

#ManUtd #MUFC (1981).

Elizabeth Inglis by George Hurrell, 1940. The British actress is probably best known as the mother of Sigourney Weaver.

Pleased that this has now been updated to make the correct position clear